Week of June 20, 2011

• Part 1 of Timothy Ogden’s extended interview with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo is now up 
• An overview of current state of mobile phone use & services in East Africa 
• Monetary Theory and Mobile Banking - Lessons from Kenya 
• The MLK project on “Is there a business case for microinsurance?” 
• Richard Thaler on smarter public policy in new McKQuarterly
• Reaching the Poor and Very Poor with Appropriate Savings Services
• The problem of WIZZIT vs. the success of M-PESA in serving the BOP 
• New info re: low-income client financial behavior. Very useful for mobile money productdesign
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau likely to be driven by Warren's tenets
• Jonathan Morduch's recent Science article in its entirety and unedited: “Why Finance Matters,” a commentary on Karlan & Zinman Philippines microfinance study also published in Science (gated)
• Ignacio Mas contrasts 2 e-payment Success Stories: PayPal and M-PESA 
• "The Microfinance Contagion Scenario" by Timothy Ogden and David Roodman’s response and disagreement with the piece